St. Joseph on
the Beach: This man shares a remarkable story about his grandfather during the 1930s or 1940s in Egypt
involving a miracle by the foster father of Jesus. In short, store employees plotted to murder his grandfather because he prevented them from stealing from the store. They made him
dig his own grave at an empty beach. Seven employees then threw him into the ditch and began shoveling dirt over him.

“That was when a mysterious old man appeared at the top of the hill, his eyes and body were glowing white
with brilliance and the old man descended towards them at a speed no human being could attain. The employees were so frightened by what happened that they dropped their hats . . . and ran away as
fast as they could. When my grandfather climbed out of the ditch to thank the old man, the old man suddenly vanished.”

Just then, his grandfather remembered that his aunt had called from Lebanon a few days earlier to say
she had a dream that Saint Joseph would save him from being murdered. He realized he should not have laughed at her dream and her “superstition” after all. (Source- scroll
tohumble_catholic)

IN HER
DREAM, SHE SAW POPE FRANCIS AND SAINT GIANNA'S DAUGHTER

KISSED BY POPE FRANCIS: Baby
Gianna Masciantonio was born September 17, 2014. That same month, she was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. Doctors told her heartbroken parents she only had “days to weeks, maybe months”
to live and would never reach her first birthday.

Soon after the diagnosis, the baby’s mother had a profound dream:“I had a dream. She was walking upstairs which meant that she had to be old enough to be walking. And
at the top of the stairs was the Pope and Saint Gianna’s daughter. And I had that dream. And it came true,” Gianna’s mother the day after her baby was kissed by the pope (Source: David Spunt, CBS Philly).

Ever since the dream in 2014, the mother, Kristen Masciantonio, knew her baby would
live long enough to walk (Baby Gianna would go on to have her first birthday on 9/17/2015, and is doing better).

Kristen also knew from the dream that her baby would one day meet Pope
Francis.

This part came true in Philadelphia when Pope Francis kissed and blessed the baby one year after the
dream as his popemobile headed to Independence Hall on Saturday, September 26, 2015. The baby’s father, Joey Masciantonio, told CBS that he “held her over the fence as far as I could” and
that’s when a guard grabbed her and took her to the pope. “We just thought we’d see him drive by. We never thought in a million years that he would bless our
daughter,” Joey said (Source: FOX 29).

But there’s more. Recall that in the mother’s dream, Saint Gianna's daughter stood at the top of
the stairs along with the pope. Well, Saint Gianna’s daughter – also named Gianna and now a doctor – happened to attend the papal festivities in Philadelphia. While in Philly, the saint’s
daughter held Baby Gianna Masciantonio (this happened on Thursday, Sept 24, 2015)!

The baby has already achieved many milestones previously believed impossible.

In December of 2014 (when the baby was a few months old), doctors at the Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia “determined that the rare tumor on her brain stem was benign but still pressing on vital nerves” and by summer she no longer needed a feeding tube (Source: Peg Quann, Bucks County Courier
Times). The baby had spent the first year of life in hospice care.

While dying of intestinal cancer, a sick man wakes up to find a bearded man's hand
on his shoulder, comforting him. A week later, his priest sends the family a photo of Padre Pio, and the sick man immediately recognizes him as the man who had shown up. The sick man had
never seen a picture of the deceased saint previously, though Padre Pio's famous gloves had been touched to his skin. (the priest had brought him the gloves, which Padre Pio once used to soak up
blood from his stigmata wounds). The man eventually died of the cancer, but the man's life was extended. In fact, the tumor in the intestine showed miraculous shrinking the next time he went
to the doctor. (Source:forums member
Darran)

Man from dream identified: A man unknown to this
woman appeared in a dream and said to confide in him any troubles she had. The woman unburdened herself. They prayed together. The very next day, the woman was flipping
through a Catholic New Yorker magazine and spotted a photo of the very man from the dream! It was Solanus Casey (1870-1955), a Capuchin priest whose life was being investigated for
sainthood. When the priest was alive, people used to come to him to tell them his troubles. (Source– scroll toprosebyme)

In a dream, Blessed Mother cradles her dead Son– This woman was
living a sinful life when, in her dream, a tearful Blessed Mother holding her dead Son who had just come down off the cross said to her, “Look what you’ve done." The woman changed her life,
wishing never to hurt Jesus again (Source– scroll to “RosaryFan”).

Virgin Mary’s mother appears and says, “I am Ann.” to Yves Nicolazi on June 5, 1623. She says, "Yves Nicolazic, do not fear. I am Anne, the Virgin Mary's
mother. Tell your rector that at one time there used to be a chapel on that patch of land called Bocenno, even before there was village here. It was the most popular one in all the country. It was
destroyed 924 years and 6 months ago. I would like to have it rebuilt as soon as possible. I would like you to take care of it because God wants me to be honored there." The basilica that was then
built in northwestern France can still be visited today. It's called the Basilica of Sainte-Anne d'Auray.

This woman didn’t believe in signs– until her father died. The
next day, all of a sudden the most beautiful full double rainbow appeared outside the house. Later her mom was going through the attic and found a letter from her dad from his service days in
World War II. He had seen a rainbow while flying and promised that one day he’d show his wife a rainbow. Beautiful! (Source)

The deceased Padre Pio greets him in Italy - Father Shenan Boquet visited the friary in San Giovanni Rotondo where Padre Pio lived until his death in
1968. He wanted to pray for relief from his illness. The moment he knelt down in the church, he looked up. Immediately he saw a Capuchin friar coming towards him. The friar pointed his finger at
the priest and says, “Do not be afraid of dying if it serves God’s mighty work.” The friar also grabbed him by the arm and showed him a picture of a man who died in fear without being prepared.
The friar then said, “Do not be afraid of serving God even if it’s through an illness if it serves God’s plan. No one is prepared. No one is ready. Prepare.”

All of a sudden the friar wasn’t there, which didn’t make sense. As the priest left, he told a younger friar to thank the
“older friar” for his thoughtfulness. The friar assured him there had been no other friars in the vicinity. The American priest eventually realized he had been visited by long dead Padre Pio
himself. In fact, the mysterious friar had even said to him, “Pray, hope and don’t worry,” which is Padre Pio’s famous phrase. After the incident, Father Boquet began healing nicely from
his illness.

(Source: Program #10860 of “Women of Grace” – aired on EWTN May 18 & 19, 2015). Father Shenan Boquet
was a guest of host Johnette Benkovic. Fr. Boquet is president of Human Life International.

Roses sent by Saint Thérèse of Lisieux(1873-1897). This French saint is well-known for
sending roses to those who ask her for help. In fact, before dying, the saint said, “I will let fall a shower of roses” and “I shall spend my heaven doing good upon earth.” Thousands have said
they received roses from her, including Pope Francis.

I’ll just mention a few charming
examples collected by author Elizabeth Ficocelli in her book, Shower of Heavenly Roses (2004). A
red rose lying in the snow. A
never-dying rose in a vase.
Roses
sent to reveal that certain family members had entered heaven.

But my favorite story in her book involvesa
husband named Mike who worked at a thrift shop. One day, he called
his wife from
the shop about
an unusual incident.

Apparently, a young woman had come in with a bag of items she was donating, yet nobody had seen her enter or leave the store. It seemed she had just vanished after giving Mike her bag. What
Mike did not know was that his wife had
been secretly praying a novena to St. Thérèse about
her husband’s health problems. Mike's wife said nothing about this on the phone, but she did wonder to herself, "Could the mysterious woman possibly have been
Saint Thérèse?"

When her husband got home, she asked him to view a wall covered with pictures of people. Although he was a non-Catholic and unfamiliar with the faces of saints,
Mike immediately pointed
to the image of St. Therese as the woman in the thrift shop. His wife then revealed her identity. If you are curious about what was found in the bag donated to the shop by the saint,
read
the book, Shower of Heavenly Roses.

Pope John Paul II declared Saint Thérèse of Lisieuxthe 33rd Doctor of the Church in 1997. She is also known as the “Little Flower” and “St. Thérèse of
the Child Jesus

A woman from Los Angeles named Hortencia
Portez reports that her uncle was scared to death in jail in El Paso, Texas, back in the 1930s. The uncle had been convicted of trafficking liquor from Mexico to the United
States. The jail was filed with violent inmates and jailers.

The uncle prayed to a holy priest named Padre Pio for protection (Padre Pio was alive but in Italy). Hortencia writes,
“One night as he was praying, his cell became filled with a beautiful fragrance of roses. He felt a great sense of peace.
He saw Padre Pio standing in front of him. Padre Pio communicated to Uncle Eleno that everything would be all right.” Uncle Eleno lived to be a hundred years old. (Source: www.PadrePioDevotions.org/testimonials (scroll to “My Uncle’s Whole Life Changed”)

Dr. Carlos Eduardo Restrepo, an anesthesiologist from Medellín, Colombia, realized he was cured upon
waking up one morning in January of 2005. The previous night, he was still very ill from lupus and was suffering from an infection in the thorax and kidney damage, and was expected to die soon.
He had spent nine months in the hospital. After receiving last rites, an image of the late Blessed Laura came to his mind in a strong way, so he started praying to her.

According to CNA, the doctor prayed to Laura, “Mother Laura . . . If you heal me of this, I will tell the world about your miracle so that you will be raised to the altars.” The doctor adds that “when
I entrusted myself to Blessed Laura I felt a wonderful sense of peace.” He told the Colombia newspaper, El Tiempo, “If this isn’t a miracle, I don’t know what is.”

Regarding the night when the image of Laura came to him, Dr. Restrepo explains, “a mí
me vino la imagen de ella. No voy a decir que fue una aparición o que vi una luz, me acordé de ella, pensé en ella,” according to ACI/EWTN Noticias. In English, this means,
“The image of her came to me. I’m not going to say it was an apparition or that I saw a light, but I was reminded of her, I thought of her.”

On this night, he prayed to Blessed Laura of St. Catherine of Siena (also known as Blessed Laura de
Jesus Montoya Upegui). The miracle was one of two miracles approved by the Vatican for Laura, who died in 1949. Many believe Laura will become the first canonized Colombian saint.